Central Hosts Successful Michael Howard Event
On Sunday , 25 February 2024 Central Synagogue had the pleasure in hosting former leader of the Conservative Party and Home Secretary Lord Michael Howard of Lympne at…
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Central Synagogue and Spiro Ark present
Above and Beyond (2015)
Directed by Roberta Grossman
Would you risk everything – your future, your citizenship, even your life – to help a brother in need?
In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of Jewish American pilots answered a call for help. In secret and at great personal risk, they smuggled planes out of the U.S., trained behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia and flew for Israel in its War of Independence. As members of Machal – “volunteers from abroad” – this ragtag band of brothers not only turned the tide of the war; they also embarked on personal journeys of discovery and renewed Jewish pride.
ABOVE AND BEYOND is their story.
Sunday 15th May 2016 at 7:00 pm
£10 tickets
Venue: Central Synagogue,
36-40 Hallam Street, London W1W 6NW
020 7580 1355 / bookings@centralsynagogue.org.uk or